ASSIGNS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ASSIGNS, contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular
  title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession. Vide Ham. Paities,
  230; Lofft. 316. These words, and also the word forever, are commonly added
  to the word heirs in deeds conveying a fee simple, heirs and assigns forever
  "but they are in such cases inoperative. 2 Barton's Elem. Convey. 7, (n.)
  But see Fleta, lib. 3, cap. 14, Sec. 6. The use of naming them, is explained


  in Spencer's Case, 5 Rep. 16; and Ham. Parties, 128. The word heirs,
  however, does not include or imply assigns. 1 Anderson's Rep. 299.